Self-hypnosis

[alfa]

Friends,

Isn't the Buddhist path more like self-hypnosis than anything else?

Consider the noble path and related practices.

It's all about conditioning one's mind to act in certain ways, think certain thoughts, and so on.

So basically we are inducing happiness through a form of self-hypnosis.

Society conditions you to believe that money=happiness.

Buddhism conditions you to believe that meditation (or noble path) = happiness.

[SarathW]

It is definitely an attempt to unconditioned the mind but not self-hypnosis.
If it is hypnosis, you can attain Nibbana by getting some one to hypnotise you.

[Pondera]

Do you believe in truth, alfa?

[Saengnapha]

Friends,

Isn't the Buddhist path more like self-hypnosis than anything else?

Consider the noble path and related practices.

It's all about conditioning one's mind to act in certain ways, think certain thoughts, and so on.

So basically we are inducing happiness through a form of self-hypnosis.

Society conditions you to believe that money=happiness.

Buddhism conditions you to believe that meditation (or noble path) = happiness.

I don't think you are totally wrong as some here would jump on you for posting this. There is a lot of self-hypnosis, imo, when it comes to practicing much of what is called the 8 Fold Path. But religions were created mainly for those who need some comfort and also to control the masses. However, the comfort they give is often an exchange of conditionings. But there is something other that is communicated by the great teachers throughout history; that there is a transcendant reality. Some hear this, few realize it. Most of them just argue about what it is.

[Spiny Norman]

Isn't the Buddhist path more like self-hypnosis than anything else?

More like not-self hypnosis.

[binocular]

More like not-self hypnosis.

There can't be hypnosis when there's noone to hypnotize!

[binocular]

Isn't the Buddhist path more like self-hypnosis than anything else?

Consider the noble path and related practices.

It's all about conditioning one's mind to act in certain ways, think certain thoughts, and so on.

So basically we are inducing happiness through a form of self-hypnosis.

Society conditions you to believe that money=happiness.

Buddhism conditions you to believe that meditation (or noble path) = happiness.

What isn't conditioning?

It appears that conditioning is inescapable; we are conditioned one way or another. Many of us have an ambiguous attitude toward the concept of conditioning itself. We tend to be positive about conditioning when it is about letting ourselves be conditioned to learn to cook, dance, drive, learn a vocation, a music instrument, become proficient in a sport. But we are not so positive about conditioning when it comes to learning different modes of thinking and looking at ourselves and the world.

[chownah]

What isn't conditioning?

nibanana
chownah

[Sam Vara]

What isn't conditioning?

nibanana
chownah

It is conditioned, though, isn't it? Without the soil, water, warmth, and the nibanana tree, we couldn't grow the nibanana.

[binocular]

It is conditioned, though, isn't it? Without the soil, water, warmth, and the nibanana tree, we couldn't grow the nibanana.

That explains all the monkeys, monkeys, monkeys!

[2600htz]

Hello:

Quite the opposite, the term hypnosis means "put to sleep", while the Buddha teaches "awakening".

Regards.

[paul]

“In the untrained mind, attention and consciousness are conditioned by intentional activity…so that by the time they come into contact with sensory data, they are already preconditioned by ignorance to receive and attend to those data in a particular way.
Even in the mind on the path they are still preconditioned, because the purpose of knowledge in terms of right view is to condition consciousness in another direction, towards the ending of suffering. Only when ignorance is totally eradicated, at the end of the path, is there an experience of unconditioned awareness.”—-“Right Mindfulness”, Thanissaro.